Spanish is lulzy. I luffs it. [nekare]

So, I was supporting Paraguay. AW. Sorry, Spanish people in my flist, but I like rooting for the underdog. (Argentina doesn't count because they beat us horribly.) So I guess now I'm cheering for Uruguay, because I'd really like a latinamerican team in the final. BUT, I really doubt they'll pass, ha. Ah well. Then again, Ghana deserved to go on more than Uruguay. DECISIONS, DECISIONS.

Lol, wikipedia says that cajeta, our innocent milk candy, can mean vulva in Argentina. AHAHA.

It's sort of fascinating how swear words (grocerías) in Spanish have such a varied meaning along the countries that use it - like, pinche is just a cook's assistant in Spain, and I can remember seeing it used as that in a children's book, and thinking OMG THIS IS SO RUDE as a kid, because it's such a strong swear word in here. Or watching tv in Spain, they use puta madre for EVERYTHING, I remember it being in like, detergent's ads, and it's a DEFINITE no-no here, it's one of the strongest things you could say.

And I guess one of the things that must mystify other countries is the incredibly, completely, and utterly Mexican Güey, (most identified by the always present NO MÁMES WEY), literally a ball-less bull, which has evolved into a weird kind of DUDE. YES, WEYES, WE ARE A STRANGE PEOPLE.

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♥ este post (el Santos también)

::necesito un icono que diga "no mames"::

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es tan versátil! Esta el 'no mames wey' de chavito de 16 cuando no pasa mate, el 'no máaaames weeey' de niña fresa, etc etc etc. me encanta decir no mames, pero wey nunca me ha gustado. Por lo cual al parecer los dioses me han castigado haciendo que mi hermano lo diga aproximadamente cada tres minutos.

Si al Santos le gusta, entonces tiene sello oficial de aprobación.

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Ohhh, I have a few
Buseta is a small bus here, but I think is in Venezula that it means quite a diferent thing. Chaqueta, around here is a jacket but in Peru is a diferent thing.

oh, and once I was working with a girl from Brazil and she keep saying "lo tengo encucado" which around here sounds really really dirty because cuca is (besides a kind of cookie) a word for vagina. Like the fifth time I hear her say that I asked her what she meant by encucado. She pointed to her head, she meant that she keept thinking about the problem.

Chaqueta is also a jacket here, I wonder what it means in Peru! A Colombian-Canadian friend kept saying this word, ugh, I can't remember exactly which one was it, but for me it meant maybe and for her something that was certain (quizas? algo asi?) and at first I thought it was that she wasn't a native speaker, but she said it was Colombian. Sooo, what you do you say?

HUH. that's so weird. I'd heard the cuca thing in passing a while back, I hadn't heard it refered to that before, but in context (and with the guy doing a lot of eyebrow raisings) it mad sense. I can imagine it'd be weird with her saying it like that! And it's strange, but 'cucar' in here is when you play with dogs to sort of make them bite you playingly? like taking their toys away and stuff to make them a bit mad so they pay attention to you? So if someone told me that phrase I'd just think something was making them angry.

Mi papa se enojo TANTO con Paraguay. Les grito, "ENTONCES PIERDAN. QUIEREN PERDER. NO ESTÁN JUGANDO BIEN, NI SE MERECEN GANAR!" Lo dijo mas por tanta oportunidad que se les fue, porque francamente no jugaron tan mal.

Germany FTW!

Lol, wikipedia says that cajeta, our innocent milk candy, can mean vulva in Argentina

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nooooooooooo!! NOW I CAN'T UNSEE IT!

NO GERMANY. ;_; me pone muy triste!

I thought it would come down to be Brazil, Germany, or Argentina winning it all...this World Cup has been very, very strange.

Jaja, asi se puso mi papá con el de méxico - uruguay, asi como 'TENÍAN LA OPORTUNIDAD Y LA DEJARON, NUNCA QUIEREN HACER NADA, NUNCA NUNCA NUNCA' lo cual me olió un POCO a amargura. Poquito. lol. la verdad se me hace medio ridículo que la gente se enoje tanto por futbol. Digo, no es como si los jugadores lo hicieran a propósito...

CAJETA CAJETA CAJETA CAJETAAAA. cajetosa.

The guys I work with are totally known for every other word being "wey" or "pinche". It's kind of annoying at times, because I find myself zoning out and not even WANTING to have any kind of conversation with them because EVERY SINGLE WORD has to punctuated by pinche or wey. o_O Most of them are from Durango and Sinaloa, and they use this as...like, an excuse?

And yeah, if I saw "pinche" in a children's book, I'd be like WTF OMFG NOOOOOOOOOO DON'T LOOK AT IT CHILDREN. And I had no idea about the puta madre thing...I'd definitely be like OMFG WHY.

lol, that's common everywhere, really, my brother abuses it like whoa. In girls it can be a sign of being 'fresa' sort of like posh and uppity. I actually HATE using wey, I find it so annoying, but people love it. UGH. I must admit, my token swear word is chingada. The bf tried to say 'those fucking' the other day about some secretaries that had screwed me up and said 'esas putas' instead, which made me go lol but go 'zomg don't say that again!'

IT'S CRAZY! Puta madre this, puta madre that, in daytime television! It was like OMG WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!1! XD Then again, the Spanish are weird. Very weird.

VAMOS URUGUAY!!! Estuvo demasiado lindo ese partido. Creo que les toca dificil con Holanda pero vamos igual. Me encantaría que ganaran. No quiero que gane España pero es donde hay más guapos so I'm conflicted. Hee.

Si, no hay tantas posibilidades, pero aun asi estaria padre que ganaran. Jaja, ya se, algunos estan tan lindos! Es dificil ver al equipo con odio XD

"puto" is a type of rice bread/pastry in the Philippines. Yeah, it's Southeast Asian, but it can be jarring when put together with all the other Spanish-named goods in a Filipino bakery.

Wow, that's bizarre. o_o I would stare a lot if I saw that in a bakery, lol.

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